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Enquest - £82m equity fund raising boosts balance sheet

December 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • ENQ
  • Price:
  • 25.5p
A key factor in the Enquest story is whether it has the financial headroom to make it through to first production of its large 70% owned Kraken field in the North Sea in H1 next year. Kraken is expected to generate a net 35,000 barrels per day, providing a huge uplift against aveage production of 42,520 as at H1. So it was a tremendous boost when management announced completion of a new share issue to raise £82m. It has issued 356.7m new shares at 23p (a 17% discount to the previous day’s close), while investors were cheered by the participation of Double A Ltd (controlled by CEO Amjad Bseisu’s extended family), which took up 42.5m shares. As part of the deal its borrowings have also been restructured; the US$1.2bn revo ...

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